Category: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Some reflections on 20 years of innovations in Amazon S3 including S3 Tables, S3 Vectors and S3 Metadata.

AWS launches a new feature of Amazon S3 that lets you create general purpose buckets in your own account regional namespace simplifying bucket creation and management as your data storage needs grow in size and scope.

Over the past week, we passed Laba festival, a traditional marker in the Chinese calendar that signals the final stretch leading up to the Lunar New Year. For many in China, it’s a moment associated with reflection and preparation, wrapping up what the year has carried, and turning attention toward what lies ahead. Looking forward, […]

New capabilities help optimize application performance, analyze unlimited prefixes, and simplify metrics analysis through S3 Tables integration.

Scale vector storage and querying to new heights with S3 Vectors’ general availability—now supporting up to 1 billion vectors per index, 100ms query latencies, and expanded regional availability, while reducing costs up to 90% compared to specialized databases.

Access FSx for NetApp ONTAP file data through S3 to enable AI/ML workloads and analytics—letting you use enterprise file data with Bedrock, SageMaker, and analytics services while it remains in your file system.

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AWS introduces Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for S3 general purpose buckets, enabling administrators to automatically manage permissions through tag-based policies that match tags between users, roles, and buckets—eliminating the need to constantly update IAM policies as organizations scale.